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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1music, Pugnani returned to Italy in 1770, and continued in Turin the direction of the Violin School founded by Somis. He had for pupils the distinguished Viotti, Bruni, Olivieri, Diana, Borra, Molino, Traversa, Borghi, and others. His style of execution is said to have been broad and noble, "characterised by that commanding sweep of the bow, which afterwards formed so grand a feature in the performance of Viotti." Pugnani's compositions are very numerous; they consist of solos, trios, quartets, quintets, overtures, and operas. Of the latter he composed seven or eight, which were all highly successful, and performed in almost every theatre in Italy.
3As a violinist he had at Paris a truly formidable rival in Gaviniès, whom Viotti has termed "the French Tartini," and who was appointed, in 1794, Professor of the Violin in the then newly-established Conservatoire of Paris; but both as a composer and a performer Pugnani was held in the greatest esteem throughout Europe until the time of his death, which occurred at Turin in 1798.
5It is said that in his younger days he had an ardent desire to see and hear Tartini, and
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